Franz Adolph von Treitschke

Franz Adolph Treitschke , from 1821 von Treitschke (born February 21, 1793 in Dresden , † May 25, 1848 in Magdeburg ) was the chief customs officer of the founding member of Saxony in the German Customs Union .

Career

His father was the Saxon court and judiciary Karl Friedrich Treitschke , who came from a Leipzig merchant family. His brother and son are the Saxon generals Eduard Heinrich von Treitschke and Heinrich Leo von Treitschke . Treitschke began with a commercial apprenticeship in Leipzig and then worked as a correspondent , cashier and accountant . Then at the end of 1813 he took part in the Saxon Army with his brother Eduard Heinrich in the Wars of Liberation against Napoleon . Treitschke then continued to serve as an officer in the Saxon Army until 1823. Although no longer active in the army, he was given the character of a major in the Saxon infantry in 1848 as a result of his later life . From July 1821 the Treitschke brothers worked as travel companions and educators for the descendants of Count Schönburg, who belonged to the high nobility . For this they were both raised to the hereditary Saxon nobility (resolution of the king of July 25, 1821, diploma of September 12, 1821).

From 1823 to 1825 Treitschke studied law at the University of Leipzig and obtained the necessary legal final exam. He then entered the Saxon civil service in Dresden, where he held managerial positions in various administrative institutions. In 1834 Treitschke joined the newly created Customs and Tax Directorate in Dresden as a customs councilor. This activity was led by the establishment of the German Customs Union with the aim of an economic internal market of the affiliated countries and the like. a. also from Saxony and the resulting reorganization of the Saxon customs administration. Here he was appointed senior customs officer in 1840 and in 1847 as the Saxon customs representative for the provincial tax office for the Prussian province of Saxony in Magdeburg. Treitschke died in Magdeburg in 1848.

family

Franz Adolph von Treitschke married Emilie Vieth von Golsenau in 1826. She is the great-aunt of the writer Ludwig Renn. They had 5 children:

• Berta (1830–1904) ⚭ 1854 Moritz Adolph Nehrhoff von Holderberg (1822–1890), royal Saxon court judge
• Clara Maria Isabella (1833–1901) ⚭ 1853 Adalbert Friedrich Wilhelm von Hackewitz (1831–1892) Baron, Kgl. prussia. Rittmeister
• Adolf Victor von Treitschke (* 1836)
• Heinrich Leo von Treitschke (1840–1927), Saxon General ⚭ Elise Kraft (1845–1926),
• Margarethe Marie Hedwig von Treitschke (1847–1928)

literature

• The senior officials of the German Customs Union - A bureaucratic functional elite between national interests and inter-state integration (1834–1871) , Vandengoetz Rupprecht GmbH 2012.
• Royal Sächsischer Hof-Civil- u. Military state in 1828 , Leipzig Weidmannsche Buchhandlung G. Reimer.
• Jörg Titze: The Königl. Saxon Infantry (IV) , Books on Demand GmbH, Norderstedt 2015.

source

• Nobility diploma for the brothers Franz Adolph and Eduard Heinrich von Treitschke from September 12, 1821